Needle beam could eliminate signal loss in on-chip optics: Harvard researchers create a light wave that propagates without spreading
Top: A micrograph and diagram of the metallic gratings that produce the needle beam. Bottom: An approximation of the experimental...
Rust Never Sleeps: Berkeley Lab-led Observations of Electron Hopping in Iron Oxide Hold Consequences for Environment and Energy
Iron oxide (rust) is a poor electrical conductor, but electrons in iron oxide can use thermal energy to hop from one iron atom to...
Proteins barge in to turn off unneeded genes and save energy
A few Angstroms make all the difference. The CueR protein binds to DNA at the start of a gene that protects against copper poisoning...
$18.5 million NSF grant to develop self-monitoring health devices
A schematic for an unobtrusive, wearable electronic health monitoring system. Penn State is part of a collaborative research effort...
Dawn has Departed the Giant Asteroid Vesta
This image is from the last sequence of images NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained of the giant asteroid Vesta, looking...
New Method for Rapid Separation of Uranyl Ions from Aqueous Solutions
The mentioned research group has set its main goal on preparing selective and environmentally friendly adsorbents for fast separation and...
Improvement of Photocatalytic Activity of Zinc Oxide
The modification was used in order to increase the photocatalytic activity of the nanocatalyst. The catalysts synthesized through this...
NASA's SDO Sees Massive Filament Erupt on Sun
Swirls of green and red appear in an aurora over...
